Mitchell McKenna - tagged with ibm http://mitchmckenna.com/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress mitchellmckenna@gmail.com IBM Sage Computer Ad, 1960 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10693/ibm-sage-computer-ad-1960

How we used to shoot down missiles, with punch cards and light wands.

]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:55:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10693/ibm-sage-computer-ad-1960/ibm-sage-computer-ad-1960 How IBM Watson Could Change Healthcare http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9126/perspectives-on-watson-healthcare

Now this is where I see Watson being used in the future. We all take advice from our doctors, but wouldn't it be nice to get a statistical opinion on what the solution to your ailment might be? Doctor's could use Watson to get alternative opinions, options the doctor might not thought of on his own. Watson could have years of your medical records to base answers on, something a doctor might easily overlook.

Check out a couple of my other favorite videos on Watson: The Face of Watson and Building Watson: The DeepQA Project.

]]> Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:40:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9126/perspectives-on-watson-healthcare/perspectives-on-watson-healthcare IBM Watson: The Face of Watson http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9101/ibm-watson-the-face-of-watson

Preparing Watson for the Jeopardy stage posed a unique challenge to the team: how to represent a system of 90 servers and hundreds of custom algorithms for the viewing public. IBM, in collaboration with a team of partners, created a representation of this computing system for the viewing audience; from its stage presence to its voice. Who knew the spinning sphere had so much meaning?! Check out another one of my favorite Watson videos Building Watson. Tomorrow, Febuary 14, 2011, America will witness Watson compete on Jeopardy on TV against two of the show's biggest winners Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.

]]> Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:10:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9101/ibm-watson-the-face-of-watson/ibm-watson-the-face-of-watson IBM 100 Year Anniversary - A Century of Achievements That Changed the World http://mitchmckenna.com/post/8970/ibm-centennial-film-100-x-100-a-century-of-achievements-that-have-changed-the-world

IBM, we've all heard the name, we know they are a massive computer company, many of us grew up with an IBM computer in our household, but how have they been around so long? Innovation. The following film features 100 people, who each present the IBM achievement recorded in the year they were born. It offering a whirlwind history of the company. Makes me proud to have worked at IBM. Check out the other great IBM Centennial Film: They Were There as well.

]]> Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:14:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/8970/ibm-centennial-film-100-x-100-a-century-of-achievements-that-have-changed-the-world/ibm-centennial-film-100-x-100-a-century-of-achievements-that-have-changed-the-world Building IBM Watson - The DeepQA Project http://mitchmckenna.com/post/8933/building-watson-a-brief-overview-of-the-deepqa-project

David Ferrucci of IBM discusses the DeepQA Project; the technology and architecture behind IBM's newest technological innovation, the question answering and natural language processing system, Watson.

]]> Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:12:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/8933/building-watson-a-brief-overview-of-the-deepqa-project/building-watson-a-brief-overview-of-the-deepqa-project IBM's Next 5 in 5 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/587/ibms-next-5-in-5 The third annual "IBM Next Five in Five" is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. The Next Five in Five is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as emerging technologies from IBMs Labs around the world that… ]]> Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:17:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/587/ibms-next-5-in-5/ibms-next-5-in-5 A history of progress http://mitchmckenna.com/post/329/a-history-of-progress

A history of progress

This is a snapshot of nearly a century of progress at IBM. From: IBMSocialMedia Views: 217

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